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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"Small firms"”.
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Small Firms in the U.S. Economy, Three Essays
This thesis studies the characteristics of small firms in the US using data from the Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF). The first chapter examines how the owners of small firms use decisions about legal organization, firm size, capital structure, and owner investment in the firm to manage …
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Factors affecting the selling prices of small firms
… of the jobs in the United Stated are created by firms with fewer than 500 employees (Davis, et al. [1998]). Yet, there is only limited research done on the industry trends and conditions affecting small company sale transactions. The small business industry has very different dynamics compared to …
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance : small firms and their banks
… with a particular topic in the financing of smaller businesses – viz. small firms and their banks. The first essay discusses the pricing of the bank loan for growing SMEs. The second essay examines the role of financial advice to small firms in alleviating credit constraints. The third essay …
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University-industry relationship: From the perspective of small firms
… relationships from the perspective of small firms. Traditionally university-industry relationships research features large firms rather than small firms, which leaves the strategies applied by small firms to establish and develop relationships with universities poorly understood. This …
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Foreign Portfolio Investment and the Financial Constraints of Small Firms
… investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Utilizing a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, I examine the impact of foreign portfolio investment on capital issuance and firm growth across countries and firm characteristics, in particular size. …
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UK support for small firms: an examination of business advisors' heuristics
Ibis thesis concerns business advice to small and medium sized businesses (SNIEs). SNIEs account for the overwhelming number of businesses in OECD economies. Consequently, governments have come to see the SNIE sector as increasingly important to 'national competitiveness' and job creation, and …
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IT strategizing of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
The contribution of small firms towards the creation of economic value in a countrys Gross Domestic Product, employment and innovation is widely acknowledged. Relatively little is known on how small firms are adopting IT strategically to acheive business-IT alignment and how alignment changes over …
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Marketing in indigenous and Asian small firms in the West Midlands.
… during the start-up, development and growth of small firms in the West Midlands. As an exploratory study, it provides evidence to support the central hypothesis of the thesis that whilst many small firms have the potential to progress through to the successful growth stage of development, they …
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Lessons on demand--order and progress for small firms in Ceará, Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Strategic orientation and organizational performance of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
Although the contribution of the small enterprise to a nations economy, job creation and innovation is well known, comparatively little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of organizational …
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Rethinking innovation : the knowledge spill over strategic entrepreneurship In micro and small firms in Nigeria
… of innovation which arises from focus on big firms in advanced countries. Employing knowledge spillover theory of strategic entrepreneurship and using case study of selected micro and small firms in Nigeria, the study contextualises (i.e consider what is innovative to be context dependent) …
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ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES UNDERLYING ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGIC RENEWAL WITHIN GROWTH-ORIENTED SMALL FIRMS: A SITUATED LEARNING THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… strategic renewal in growth-oriented small firms. Specifically, Situated Learning Theory (SLT) is applied as the major analytical lens to scrutinise the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge underpinning entrepreneurial strategic renewal in such businesses. Given its remit, …
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Why did they comply while others did not? : environmental compliance of small firms and implications for regulation
… into the environmental compliance behavior of small firms (SFs). Specifically, the dissertation examines the impacts of two categories of factors. The first category concerns internal motivations that drive SFs' decisions to comply or not comply with a formal environmental regulation. The other …
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THE ROLE OF SMALL FIRMS IN EMPLOYMENT AND INNOVATION GENERATION, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
This thesis examines the role of small firms in two key areas of economic activity, employment creation and innovation generation, through an exploration of existing literature and an empirical study of small firms in the electronics manufacturing industry of South West England. The work focuses …
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Compliance of small firms with the value added tax : a study of the supply chain of small parts for buses in Columbia
… This thesis attempts to understand why some small firms evade the VAT and others do not. It revolves around the supply chain for small parts for buses of the informal transportation systems of Colombian cities. This sector slowly evolves-under growing liberalization and top-down formalization …
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A study on the implication of knowledge transfer and social capital on fostering innovation within the partnership between universities and Technology-Based Small Firms (TBSFs)
… transformation in the industry, technology-based small firms (TBSFs) have been establishing partnerships with universities for knowledge transfer to complement their limitations in terms of knowledge, skill and investment. This thesis is concerned with the transfer of knowledge between …
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Exploration of the relationship between market information resource and new product development: the role of strategic orientation as an integrating mechanism in micro and small firms
… hostility may present an even greater threat to small firms due to their limited resource bases and relative inabilities to survive the consequences of poor strategic decisions. The practice of new product development is a complex but necessary one in sectors such as fast moving consumer goods. …
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A study of factors leading to growth in small firms. An examination of factors that impact on growth of small manufacturing in least developed countries: The case of Ghana.
… is to examine the factors that lead to growth in small firms in a Least Developed Country (LDC). The research is based on the manufacturing sector in Ghana. The main objectives of the research are to identify the key variables that lead to small firms' growth and to ascertain the critical barriers …
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